Underground power line depth

Work starts today on Metro Line No.1 tunnel Le Anh HCMC – Package 1B to build the Metro Line No.1 underground track connecting Ba Son and Opera House stations will start today, announced the HCMC Management Authority for Urban Railways (MAUR). This section will be excavated by a tunnel boring machine (TBM), measuring 70 meters in length, weighing 300 tons and having a diameter of 6.79 meters. Currently, the mole has been installed at Ba Son station at a depth of 17 meters and underground drilling will begin today. Nobuyuki Kawai, director of Shimizu-Maeda consortium, the contractor of Package 1B, said for each 1.2 meters bored by the machine, reinforced concrete slabs will be installed to prevent overlying landslides. The mole is capable of excavating 12 meters per day. The first tunnel between Ba Son to Opera House stations is scheduled for completion in December 2017. Then the machine will be disassembled and transported back to Ba Son station to continue boring the second … [Read more...] about Work starts today on Metro Line No.1 tunnel

VietNamNet Bridge - Ha Noi's first urban metro line is expected to become operational by the end of 2016, its first geological survey having taken place yesterday, July7.
The French Embassy's economic counsellor, Marie-Cecile Tardieu-Smith, said that the geological survey would provide technical design for underground stations and tunnels on route. … [Read more...] about Ha Noi to get first underground train system by 2016

Japanese encephalitis cases increase in Vietnam
Because of increasing trend of Japanese encephalitis cases in the country, Vietnamese Ministry of Health issued June 27 some warning of the disease.
The Ministry asked people to practice environment hygiene to eliminate residence of mosquitoes. Cattle rearing farms should be removed far from houses. People should use mosquito nets and not let children to play near cattle farms. When a child has a high fever, they should be taken to a medical clinic for timely treatment. … [Read more...] about Social News Headlines 30/6

VietNamNet Bridge - The Hanoi Submarine - the first attack submarine of Vietnam will anchor at the Port of Cam Ranh, which is considered as one of the world's best military ports.
First kilo submarine heading to Cam Ranh seaport
Military experts admit Cam Ranh's position of great influence to the global geo-strategic map. In 1888 a Russian naval ship named "Knight" anchored at the Cam Ranh Port during its around-the-world journey. Since then, Cam Ranh became the military port where big countries stationed in the past 100 years. During the Russia - Japan War in 1905, more than 100 vessels of the Pacific Fleet N0. 2 of the Russian Navy gathered in Cam Ranh.
In 1935, the French began to build a naval base at Cam Ranh. In 1940, Cam Ranh fell into the Japanese's hands, becoming a springboard for Japan to invade Malaysia and the colonial islands of the Dutch (Indonesia at present).
On October 18, 1946, President Ho Chi Minh and the French High Commissioner D' Argenlieu met in Cam Ranh. … [Read more...] about The secret base of Hanoi Submarine

Chile rejoiced Sunday at news that 33 miners trapped deep below ground for more than two weeks were alive and apparently in good condition, but engineers warned that rescuing them could yet take months. The miners were able to send up a note through a shaft drilled 700 meters (2,300 feet) into the earth to alert engineers and family members above ground that they were together and alive inside an emergency shelter. "All 33 of us are well inside the shelter," said the note, written in bold red capital letters. President Sebastian Pinera read the message aloud and waved the note in the air, as friends and relatives wept with joy outside the northern Chilean mine whose entrance collapsed on August 5, trapping the workers inside. "This came out of the ground. It's a message from our miners telling us they are alive, that they are together," Pinera told reporters outside the San Jose gold and copper mine near the city of Copiapo, 800 kilometers (500 miles) north of Santiago. His words … [Read more...] about Trapped miners in Chile are alive after 17 days